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Fan Wuxian has always coveted Russia's arms industry, but unfortunately he doesn't have the ability to get a lot of weapons and equipment, especially in channels.

The domestic arms market is officially procured, and it is obvious that Jiangnan Heavy Industry does not have to worry about how it will be sold, but in the long run, it is necessary to seriously analyze the success of the operation of Russia's international arms market channels, so that it can enter this market in the future and make some money to spend.

Although Russia's overseas arms market has been shrinking day by day after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the current annual arms exports are only $4 billion, the amount of the agreement reached between Russia and India to purchase 50 Su-30MKI and assemble 100 aircraft of this type is as high as $3 billion, which shows the significance of the Su-27 series export to the Russian arms industry.

In the global fighter market, the Su-27 family occupies 14 percent of the market, and the Su-27 designers, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, expect to increase this share to 20 percent in recent years.

Britain's "Jane's Defense Weekly" once analyzed that the Russian aviation industry can only be supported by the hard currency earned by the Su-27 family. According to the Russian Government's own estimates, by 2015, the Russian military will only be able to absorb about 10 percent of the output of the entire military aircraft industry, which means that more than 80 percent of the Russian-made fighter planes must find foreign buyers, and the Russian Air Force has not even purchased a single new aircraft in the past five years.

At present, the development of the next generation of Russian fighters also largely depends on the export performance of the Su-27. The shortage of funds is the biggest problem plaguing the development of new Russian models, and the Russian government can provide $2 billion in research and development funds, but experts believe that this money is only enough for project planning.

The Sukhoi Design Bureau plans to make its first flight of a fifth-generation fighter in three years, but that would require about $10 billion in research and development funding, and the bureau says it will raise $5 billion, which means it will sell at least 120 Su-27 family aircraft in the next two years.

Even by Western standards, the Su-27 family is the best of the third-generation fighters. If you do not consider the performance of the weapons on board, the Su-27 and the F-15C/E can be described as having their own merits.

In terms of flight quality and agility, the Su-27 is significantly superior to the F-15C/E, at least the Cobra maneuver is not possible with the F-15C/E. Although many experts pointed out that the Su-27's entry and exit speed was too small when completing this maneuver, and the kinetic energy was too low, making it easy to be shot down by enemy aircraft in a multi-aircraft engagement, so it was of little practical value, almost no one dared to deny that the Su-27's super-maneuverability would give it an advantage in close combat with the F-15.

The weakness of the Su-27 lies in over-the-horizon operations, and it is a well-known fact that the avionics of the former Soviet Union lagged far behind the West, and the electronic equipment in the cockpit of the Su-27 only reached the level of the United States in the sixties and seventies, and the fly-by-wire control system was still analog.

In terms of fire control system, due to the gap in computer software and hardware, the Zhuk-27 radar equipped with the Su-27 is inferior to the APG-15 multi-mode radar of the F-70E in terms of automation and reliability. The Su-27 is full of objects similar to angular reflectors, rectangular section engine air intakes, and huge double vertical tails without camber, making it almost stealthy.

Unfortunately, super-maneuverability is more important than the former, which represents the trend of the development of modern fighters, and the former may depend more on the intelligence and inspiration of the designers, and the latter is closely related to the scientific and technological level and industrial capabilities of the country as a whole.

If the Su-27 and the F-15 can still compete, then after the birth of the F-22, the originator of the fourth-generation fighter of the United States, the Su-27 is completely inferior to it, and the F-22 is fully superior in supersonic cruise, stealth and electronic warfare capabilities, even in terms of agility, due to the assembly of thrust vectoring engines, the F-22 will be slightly superior.

However, it is obviously too early to say that the Su-27 era is coming to an end, in any case, for developing countries, the Su-27 series is still a high-performance fighter beyond their own scientific and technological strength, so the role of the Su-27 as the darling of the fighter market will remain for a long time.

But this period is clearly too short for the Russian aviation industry, which has a glorious history, and the United States, using the advanced technology accumulation of the F-22, has already paved the way for a relatively low-end Joint Strike Fighter.

The F-22 was developed to focus on actual combat and air supremacy, while the Joint Strike Fighter was aimed at completely squeezing the Russian and European aviation industries out of the fighter market, and for this reason the United States strictly limited the unit price of the Joint Strike Fighter to less than $38 million.

At present, the global order for joint strike fighters has exceeded 4,000 units, and in the case of very few domestic orders, the Russian aviation industry will be forced to a dead end, so the director of the Russian National Academy of Aviation Systems said that the early development of the next generation of fighters is of vital significance to the Russian aviation industry.

From the point of view of the next generation of fighters, the Su-27 era is really coming to an end.

The era of determining the attributes of a new generation of fighters by flight performance has passed, the main difference between the fourth and fifth generations is the onboard system, and further emphasizing super-maneuverability does not make practical sense.

Public opinion in the industry generally believes that the great achievements of Russian designers in the development of the Su-27 are undoubted, but it is meaningless to continue along this road. Even Simonov, the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau and the father of the Su-27, holds a similar view, arguing that the super-maneuverability of the Su-27 can already meet the needs of future air combat, and the fifth-generation fighter no longer needs to demand a breakthrough in this area.

Simonov also stressed the importance of airborne systems, saying that the F-22A and European Mirage 2000 fighters are already equipped with a fairly well-developed real-time reconnaissance-attack system, which is not available in any Russian fighter jet in service. For this reason, Russia has to purchase electronic supporting equipment from the West or Israel when improving fourth-generation fighters such as the Su-30MKI. Therefore, in the process of developing the fifth-generation fighter, it is necessary to overcome this backward situation.

However, Russia's fifth-generation fighter road is destined to be full of thorns, and the difficulties mainly come from two aspects, one is a huge funding gap, and the other is institutional problems.

Although there has been a lot of discussion about the merger of the two major military aircraft research and development giants, the Mikoyan Design Bureau and the Sukhoi Design Bureau, which have always been well watered, have not been in the river.

And in the United States, market forces have greatly advanced the development of advanced fighter jets in the United States. Boeing and Lockheed. Although the two companies are fighting to the death for an overall project, the winner usually subcontracts part of the contract to the loser in exchange for the latter's technical superiority.

In March of this year, a spokesman for the Russian military-industrial complex announced that the date of announcing the results of the tender for the fifth-generation fighter would be postponed indefinitely, and the appearance of the next generation of Russian fighters once again became distant.

Until the new Russian Sword is forged, the Su-27 and its family members will continue to play the role of foreign exchange ATMs, and people will continue to enjoy its shocking maneuvers at large and small air shows. For an aircraft that was born twenty years ago, it is clear that it has taken on a responsibility that is ahead of its time.

In the aircraft technology, Fan Wuxian has always been more enthusiastic about Russian technology, the latest stage, the large aircraft project research team has also made certain achievements, especially in the single crystal alloy required for aero engines, titanium alloy components and composite materials have made relatively large achievements, at present there are no technical difficulties in the product, but the yield and reliability of the blank can not be qualitatively improved without time precipitation.

Because of some reasons, the large aircraft project team has a relatively close cooperative relationship with the military, and with the joint efforts of both sides, certain progress has been made in the research and development of the fourth-generation aircraft.

According to the plan, in the middle of next year, the ground running and other tests will be carried out, which will be a model of the national aviation backbone cooperation, responsible for the overall aerodynamic layout design, responsible for the development of the main body materials, including titanium alloy and composite materials, also responsible for the airborne radar project, and specifically responsible for its royal engine, the stealth technology of the aircraft has also been tested, and it feels good, especially after getting the key technical information of the US military's stealth fighter, the confidence in this regard is relatively greater, Recently, I have also done a simulation test in a wind tunnel.

This time, the problems exposed by the Su-27 made Fan Wuxian consider a possibility, if he said that he participated in Russia's military aircraft design project, I don't know if he could get some more satisfactory key technologies?

Russia is now in the most difficult period, and if you can talk about Putin, it should be a good thing to set up a project team through military experts to work with the Russians on the main design of a new generation of fighters.

In fact, through the efforts of Fan's Investment Group for many years, breakthroughs have been made in the technology of some key materials, and if a breakthrough can be made in the main design, it will be of great help to the research and development of the fourth and fifth generation aircraft.

According to Fan Wuji's idea, if the fifth-generation aircraft developed by the Chinese themselves is put into production, it is believed that compared with the latest fighters of the Americans, it will also have the power to fight.

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